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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Scientists' Deaths
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.193704.22510@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <C1FCzD.EHs.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:37:04 GMT
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- In <C1FCzD.EHs.1@cs.cmu.edu> KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
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- >Several years ago (don't ask me how many) there were *several* postings,
- >including excerpts from British newspapers, about the spate of "suicides" and
- >"accidental deaths" of British space scientists in comp.risks. If anybody is
- >really interested in doing the research, instead of just sarcastically
- >dismissing them as crackpot conspiracy fodder, they can look it up in the
- >Risks archive.
-
- I remember hearing this particular conspiracy theory years ago, back
- when it had nothing to do with space. Something about people employed
- at a TS research facility for communications decryption -- the UK
- version of the NSA. Just because something is from across the Pond
- doesn't mean that it didn't start with conspiracy theorists over
- there.
-
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-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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